Goodbye to Summer in our Wildlife Garden

A selection of photos taken late summer in our wildlife garden.

We raised several Painted Lady butterflies in our Insect Lore Butterfly Garden Live Kit and released them into the garden.

Here is a selection of photos of those we released

 

 

 

 

 

Brown Rat!

Buzzard

Chiffchaff

Potato Leafhopper Eupteryx aurata

Our wildlife pond is now coming on beautifully, we struggled to get the plants established and water quality right but the plants are now taking over, the water is clear and it is teaming with life!

Common Frog

Palmate Newt

This was quite a neglected part of the garden but is now a lovely tranquil spot

Water Hawthorn

Great Diving Beetle

 

Our herbaceous borders planted for butterflies and bees

Froghopper

Possibly A delphacid planthopper (Dicranotropis hamata)

Deer Ked

Tiny Beetle Malthodes marginatus

Meadow Brown

Rabbit

 

Injured Red Squirrel

We worried about this squirrel for some time…

At one stage he was quite poorly, as well as losing his tail he also had quite a lot of swelling and was dragging one of his legs..

..he was managing by resting on his knees!

He would also stay out of harms way…

…by hiding under a bush to eat

A healthier looking squirrel

 

Young Roe Deer I startled in the garden

 

Mist

Sparrowhawk

This one is ringed

I havn’t identified this creature yet on a neighbours farm

I think perhaps our squirrels planted this sunflower

 

Common Toad

Vine Weevil

We keep the bird food in metal tins with lids, but somehow this little vole managed to get in!

Yellow Loosestrife